Today is Katie's birthday! I've said it many times...Scott thought I wanted another baby...I thought he did...when we finally talked and realized that maybe we would wait a bit longer...well...surprise...we hadn't talked soon enough...never once from the time we found out she was on the way, however, were we either one disappointed or upset...when her brother was born I was going to have something permanently done...but Scott was very upset by that...so I didn't...I was very much ridiculed for that...but girls...guys...let me just say...that is a very important decision that affects BOTH people in your marriage...I can HONESTLY say...I think we would ALL say...one of the best decisions I've ever made...life would just not be complete without our sweet Katie...
I was trying to think how long she and Thomas were married this summer...for the life of me I couldn't remember (this will be news for her...4 years by the way!!!)...I couldn't remember because it feels like just yesterday she was living with us...giggling at night with me...her and Michael doing something crazy...and ALWAYS for a laugh...our answering machine messages are very dull without the two of them around!!! I've thought that about all of our kids a lot this summer...somewhere along the line...I blinked and they are all gone...so full circle...I can say that is true...days are forever long but the years are gone in an instant!
However, she has been gone for 4 years now...they have built an amazing life together...she has graduated college and is now beginning her 2nd year of teaching at her old high school...I've watched her fall in love with teens...through her church youth group...and through her classroom...it has been evident in the way she loves to spend time with them...attempting to pour Christ into them and disciple them in the youth group...or in the way she has set up and is running her classroom...as a true Christ follower there is NO way to conduct our lives...even our professional lives...without Him being the center...without Him...being the purpose for all that we do and how we accomplish it...I see that in our Katie...we began to see that in her...when she would pray over Mikeah in her prayer journal at the ripe old age of 6...or when she started her first Bible club...FROG...(faithful representatives of God) in the 4th grade...or this year...as I heard my sweet girl tell me...mom...I just want them to understand...life is so much bigger than homework...
That's right...life is bigger...there is more...while we need to educate ourselves...we need to do it with the purpose to understand the bigger picture...the eternal picture...I'm thankful our Katie's heart was and is to return to her school and pour into those kids for the next however many years God calls her to do this...I'm thankful for the pre-K, 1st grade and 4th grade teachers (sorry I'm a blessed mom and need you to know it!)...that are doing the same in area schools...and all those others in between that Love Jesus...therefore, they are able to better love their students...while there may be hard things we don't like in public schools...never...every forget the good...
Katie...happy birthday baby!!! I love you so much...I'm so thankful...that you Love Jesus and seems you always have...(not true people...we aren't born believers)...Katie I'm thankful you have your daddy's heart...you love Jesus like him...and you serve well like him...and you have his passion...I'm thankful you are who you are! Heather said it best all those years ago in one of her college papers...6th grade hero...but to me...just Hero...have an amazing day!
Love you
momma
I was trying to think how long she and Thomas were married this summer...for the life of me I couldn't remember (this will be news for her...4 years by the way!!!)...I couldn't remember because it feels like just yesterday she was living with us...giggling at night with me...her and Michael doing something crazy...and ALWAYS for a laugh...our answering machine messages are very dull without the two of them around!!! I've thought that about all of our kids a lot this summer...somewhere along the line...I blinked and they are all gone...so full circle...I can say that is true...days are forever long but the years are gone in an instant!
However, she has been gone for 4 years now...they have built an amazing life together...she has graduated college and is now beginning her 2nd year of teaching at her old high school...I've watched her fall in love with teens...through her church youth group...and through her classroom...it has been evident in the way she loves to spend time with them...attempting to pour Christ into them and disciple them in the youth group...or in the way she has set up and is running her classroom...as a true Christ follower there is NO way to conduct our lives...even our professional lives...without Him being the center...without Him...being the purpose for all that we do and how we accomplish it...I see that in our Katie...we began to see that in her...when she would pray over Mikeah in her prayer journal at the ripe old age of 6...or when she started her first Bible club...FROG...(faithful representatives of God) in the 4th grade...or this year...as I heard my sweet girl tell me...mom...I just want them to understand...life is so much bigger than homework...
That's right...life is bigger...there is more...while we need to educate ourselves...we need to do it with the purpose to understand the bigger picture...the eternal picture...I'm thankful our Katie's heart was and is to return to her school and pour into those kids for the next however many years God calls her to do this...I'm thankful for the pre-K, 1st grade and 4th grade teachers (sorry I'm a blessed mom and need you to know it!)...that are doing the same in area schools...and all those others in between that Love Jesus...therefore, they are able to better love their students...while there may be hard things we don't like in public schools...never...every forget the good...
Katie...happy birthday baby!!! I love you so much...I'm so thankful...that you Love Jesus and seems you always have...(not true people...we aren't born believers)...Katie I'm thankful you have your daddy's heart...you love Jesus like him...and you serve well like him...and you have his passion...I'm thankful you are who you are! Heather said it best all those years ago in one of her college papers...6th grade hero...but to me...just Hero...have an amazing day!
Love you
momma
